About the day » Thursday October 5, 1961Calender converter

• Mike van Eijk, Rotterdam († 2009)
• Thomas Jason Kruse († 2018)
• Raewijn Bode († 1969)
• Irene Marie Londo, Oakland, California, Verenigde Staten († 1962)
• Vincent SEGERS († 2018)
• Judith Ann Huitsinga
• Johannes Maria Adrianus Kapitein, Langeweg († 2018)
• Marianne VERMEER, Delft († 1996)
• Margaretha Maria van Swieten, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Véronique Geoffroy († 2015)

• Anthonia Verhagen (57), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christiaan Wolters (89)
• Berendina Koops (89), Hollandscheveld
• Berendina Koops (89), Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernard Scholten (74), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Hulst (55), Sittard
• Billie Marie Routh (1), Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, Verenigde Staten
• Carolina TUIT (86), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Arthur Flint Osborne (78), Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio
• Anthonia Huiberta van Burik (72), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederlabd

• 1959 » Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial
• 1960 » Careca, Brazilian footballer
• 1960 » Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director, and producer
• 1960 » David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1961 » David Bryson, American guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1961 » Pato Banton, English singer-songwriter
• 1961 » Sharon Cheslow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Caron Keating, British television host († 2004)
• 1962 » Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• 1962 » Thomas Herbst, German footballer and manager

• 1940 » Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
• 1941 » Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1856)
• 1942 » Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
• 1943 » Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1902)
• 1950 » Frederic Lewy, German-American neurologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 » Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Robert
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Willem
9. Pieter
10. Gerrit
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Michael
14. Petrus
15. Johan
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Jacqueline
9. Karin
10. Wilhelmina
11. Ingrid
12. Adriana
13. Monique
14. Marianne
15. Petronella
16. Anita

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
• January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
• June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

The temperature on October 5, 1961 was between 12.3 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.